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(image) Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 is the easiest-to-use and most intuitive protection for your computer. Just install it and forget about viruses, spyware, rootkits, hackers, online fraud and identity theft. Chat, share photos and videos, bank and buy online, read your favorite blogs or simply surf the Web, with complete peace of mind.

Features:

1. Anti-MalWare Engine2. Advance Proactive Protection3. Personal Firewall4. Anti-Rootkit Technology5. Anti-Phising Filter6. Anti-Banking Trojan EnginePanda Security and Web of Trust have partnered together. They offer free Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 with a full,working, valid key for 3 months and it is intended for Web Of Trust members, but you can take advantage of it too.

To get a free Panda antivirus Pro 2010 version including a valid key for 3 month, all you have to do is to go to this promotion page and download Panda Antivirus Pro 2010 software. Right after that register for a free WOT account to get your 3 months key!

Registry First Aid scans the Windows registry for orphan file/folder references, finds these files or folders on your drives that may have been moved from their initial locations, and then corrects your registry entries to match the located files or folders. In addition, if your registry has links to files of deleted applications, Registry First Aid will find these invalid entries and remove them from your registry. With Registry First Aid, your Windows registry will be always clean and correct, helping your programs load faster and speeding up your computer.

The iPhone and iPod Touch's use of OS X currently does not have a disk use option. With iPhone Explorer you can turn your iPhone into a USB flash drive!

(image) iPhone Explorer is an iPhone browser for Mac that lets you browse the files and folders on your iPhone as if it were a normal USB flash drive or pen drive. You can use the very easy drag-and-drop methods to add or remove files and folders from the iPhone. The "-" button in the lower left will delete the select file from the iPhone (use cautiously) and the "+" button creates a new folder.

iPhone explorer is 100% Free by myPodApps. Copy videos, audio and all other files and folders on and off your iPhone with drag and drop.

GFI LANguard™ is the award-winning network and security scanner used by over 20,000 customers. GFI LANguard scans your network and ports to detect, assess and correct security vulnerabilities with minimal administrative effort. As an administrator, you have to deal separately with problems related to vulnerability issues, patch management and network auditing, at times using multiple products. However, with GFI LANguard these three cornerstones of vulnerability management are addressed in one package. We give you a complete picture of your network set-up and help you to maintain a secure network state faster and more effectively.

Push e-mail automatically transmitting e-mail messages that have been received by a desktop or server mail system to a mobile phone, PDA, laptop or other portable devices to keep mobile users up-to-date.

NetQin Mobile Anti-virus, as the first software passing authentic certification by the Ministry of Public Security and product testing by the Research Institution of China Mobile, is a trustworthy mobile product recommended by nokia.com. NetQin is honored as the first Symbian platinum partner in China's security field, along with the important partner of Windows Mobile in security area. At present, NetQin Anti-virus fully support the most varieties of mobile phones across the world and safeguard the handset security with all one's strength for you.Main features of NetQin Mobile Anti-virus include: * Complete and Quick File Scanning * The core scanning engine of NetQin Mobile Anti-virus has adopted the original layer mapping technique from NetQin based on "core" features of viruses and thus, it can execute a complete scan over the User's mobile phone without negligence or mistake and guarantee information security of the mobile phone. Considering the resource and power restriction of mobile phones, NetQin has optimized both scanning algorithm and strategy to minimize the power consumption of scanning process. Moreover, user interaction during the scanning process has been taken into account. Pause or stop the process at any time, or normally use the mobile phone during scanning are doable due to the user-friendly design.

* Varied viruses removing thoroughly, and infected file restoring * NetQin Mobile Anti-virus equipped with the safe and effective anti-virus strategy can kill virus in an accurate and complete way. Few simple steps can get users rid of virus and help them to restore infected file(s) without any damage . With this software, users don't have to worry about their important files be infected.

* Timely and Economical Online Update * To provide users' mobile phones with better shield, NetQin is continuously updating its virus database, from which, all users can online download the update(s) for their personal virus database. Moreover, NetQin will compress the update(s) to the maximum extent to minimize the users' communication fees, thus to offer the most cost-effective safety solution. With the simple and easy-use function of task scheduling, NetQin Mobile Anti-virus enables the users to customize their own tasks, i.e., scanning and updating. The software will automatically scan and update files according to the user-specified schedule.

This beta test version of Norton AntiVirus 2010 is the fastest, most proactive protection against viruses, Trojans and worms we have ever offered. The 2010 version of Norton AntiVirus offers superior performance, improved protection, and tools to help preserve the performance of your PC

Trapster® is a cool program that uses your phone's GPS and Internet to alert you as you approach reported traps/Red light camera at real time. It works with iPhone/Blackberry/Windows Mobile 5/Windows Mobile 6/Java-J2ME, etc phones.

When you see a trap, report it by pressing a button on your phone, or calling a toll free number. Other user's phones will alert them as they approach the trap. Trapster® learns the credibility of traps based on how many users agree. It also learns the credibility of each user, over time.

Speed trap location data is only useful if you can actually use it. You can't just look on a map and memorize all the trap locations. Trapster® continuously communicates with your mobile phone or connected device (for example the Dash Express or CarPC). Data is never stale. And it's FREE.

Personal Computer World Magazine is offering all its readers Acronis True Image 10 Personal Edition software with serial free. The latest version is Acronis True Image Home 2009. This is the best software for taking backups on your computer. Very highly recommended. Follow the below steps to get the Acronis True Image 10 Personal edition and serial.

If you own either a Maxtor or Seagate drive, definitely download their free backup software, an OEM version of Acronis True Image (it won’t work with other drives). There’s DiscWizard (Seagate) and MaxBlast (Maxtor). The software works fine with external drives, as long as at least one of the drives involved is a Seagate/Maxtor-brand.

Google Hacks is a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Google's search and map services. For example, you can use it to view a timeline of your search results, view a map, search for music, search for books, and perform many other specific kinds of searches. You can also use this program to use google as a proxy.

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Google chrome 2.0 Pre Beta is ready for release, However it is not available for public download and you have to join beta channel to get your Google Chrome updated to version 2.0

Google Chrome 2.0 Pre Beta Features List:

1. New version of WebKit, with bugfixes and new features, including CSS gradients and reflections

Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile web browser that allows you to experience the internet on your phone exactly like on your PC. Now, you can use the full web from your mobile phone with unprecedented speed and simplicity – without the typical restrictions and limitations that current ‘mobile web’ efforts offer. It’s “The Web”, not some mobile web.Unlike other mobile browsers, Skyfire supports the desktop version of Adobe Flash applications so sites, including those that serve-up video and music, are rendered exactly as you would expect - just like your PC. You will instantly recognize the content, be familiar with the page layout -- which is not true for most mobile browsing experiences. We support all that's good about today's web - not just Flash, but also Silverlight, Ajax, QuickTime and more. And even better: Skyfire evolves with the newest capabilities without you having to do anything.Currently Skyfire runs on two phone platforms. Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 (3rd edition).Windows 5 & 6Windows Mobile phones: Skyfire runs on Microsoft Windows 5, 6, and 6.1. We support VGA and QVGA screen resolutions. Skyfire runs on many popular Windows Mobile phones including the HTC Tilt, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Fuze, Motorola Q and Q9, Palm Pro, Palm 800W and Samsung Blackjack II. To check if your phone is compatible with our OS and resolution requirements, please refer to the Microsoft website.* Skyfire will not run on Windows Mobile PDAs. Skyfire runs on phones only.* Skyfire will not run on WVGA Windows Mobile phones.Skyfire will run on Wi-Fi, however a data plan is recommended.Windows 5 & 6 TouchWindows Mobile phones: Skyfire runs on Microsoft Windows 5, 6, and 6.1. We support VGA and QVGA screen resolutions. Skyfire runs on many popular Windows Mobile phones including the HTC Tilt, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Fuze, Motorola Q and Q9, Palm Pro, Palm 800W and Samsung Blackjack II. To check if your phone is compatible with our OS and resolution requirements, please refer to the Microsoft website.* Skyfire will not run on Windows Mobile PDAs. Skyfire runs on phones only.* Skyfire will not run on WVGA Windows Mobile phones.Skyfire will run on Wi-Fi, however a data plan is recommended.Symbian Phones: Skyfire runs on these phones from Nokia: E61, E61i, E62, E71, N73, N75, N76, N78, N79, N81, N82, N85, N95 and N96.Skyfire will run on Wi-Fi, however a data plan is recommended.Download Page[...]

Microsoft announced at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2009) in Las Vegas that it had finalized the development of Windows Live Essentials. MIcrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft had wrapped up the development of Windows Live Essentials, a suite of applications offered in concordance with the Windows Live Services. With the finalization of Windows Live Essentials, Microsoft has released to web (RTW) the gold version of the suite.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the next version of the Windows Server operating system from Microsoft. Building on the features and capabilities of the current Windows Server 2008 release version, Windows Server 2008 R2 allows you to create organization solutions that are easier to plan, deploy, and manage than previous versions of Windows Server.

Developing upon the increased security, reliability, and performance provided by Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 extends connectivity and control to local and remote resources. This means your organizations can benefit from reduced costs and increased efficiencies gained through enhanced management and control over resources across the enterprise.

Evaluate Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta (available in English, German, and Japanese) by downloadable ISO format. Editions for evaluation include Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, Itanium Based Systems, and Web. VHD and other download formats will be available shortly.

Windows 7 is…the next release of the Windows client operating system, built on the secure foundation of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Performance, reliability, security, and compatibility are core tenets of this release as we collect your feedback to meet our engineering goals of making Windows 7 the best-performing and most stable Windows operating system to date. New innovations in the product are designed to augment your ability as an IT professional to better provision and manage increasingly mobile PCs, protect data, and improve both end-user and personal productivity. Download the Beta for a hands-on trial. For a limited time, Microsoft is making this pre-release version of Windows 7 available to the first 2.5 million people who download. Ready to take a test drive? You can get one by trying the Windows 7 Beta. We think you’ll have the best experience if: You are willing to participate as an active beta tester and provide feedback to help us complete Windows 7. You have an extra computer available to dedicate to testing beta software.You can back up your PC, install and reinstall Windows, and reconfigure your home network connection.You’re comfortable troubleshooting your own PC problems. There’s no technical support available for the Beta.You understand how to burn an ISO file to a DVD using your computer’s DVD burner.You have a system recovery disc and know how to use it.You enjoy participating in an interactive community of beta testers, sharing experiences and feedback in real-time.Microsoft isn’t providing technical support for the Beta and isn’t responsible for business-related downtime. Don’t install the Beta on your primary home or work computer. When the Beta expires on August 1, 2009, you’ll need to reinstall a released version of Windows to keep using your computer. (See Installation Instructions.)These are the Microsoft minimum hardware recommendations for systems that will be running the Windows 7 Beta. These recommendations are specific to the beta release and are subject to change:Processor: 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processorMemory: 1 GB of system memoryHard drive: 16 GB of available disk spaceVideo card: Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128MB memory (in order to enable Aero theme)Drive: DVD-R/W driveInternet connection (to download the Beta and get updates)Note: Some product features of Windows 7, such as the ability to watch and record live TV or navigation through the use of “touch”, may require advanced or additional hardware. To learn more, see Windows 7 Beta: Frequently Asked Questions.Thank you for participating in this beta program and helping us build the best operating system for you and your end users.Download: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx(Microsoft)[...]

Windows Vista SP2 supports new types of hardware and emerging standards that will grow in importance in the coming months and years. It improves the administration experience and eases certain management and support challenges. By providing these fixes integrated into a single service pack, covering client and server versions, Microsoft provides a single high-quality update that minimizes deployment and testing complexity for customers.Service Pack 1 is a prerequisite for installing Service Pack 2. Please make sure that your system is running Service Pack 1 before you install Service Pack 2. Windows Server 2008 SP2 Beta and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta - Five Language Standalone version can be installed on systems with any of the following language versions: English, French, German, Japanese, or Spanish.FEATURES: Emerging Hardware Support• SP2 contains Blue tooth 2.1 feature pack supporting the most recent specification for Blue tooth technology• Ability to record data on Blu-Ray media,• Adds Windows Connect Now (WCN) Wi-Fi Configuration to Windows Vista SP2,• exFAT file system now supports UTC timestamps, which enables correct file synchronization across time zones.• SP2 provides support for new form factors, such as ICCD/CCID. new form factor support --example USB form factor as opposed to PCMCIA).• Support for the new VIA 64-bit CPUSecurity• SP2 includes all previously released security updates, and builds on the proven security benefits of Windows Vista• Secure Development Lifecycle process updates, where we identify the root cause of each security bulletin and improve our internal tools to eliminate code patterns that could lead to future vulnerabilities• Reliability• SP2 addresses previously released reliability updates, as well as addressing crashes, caused by Microsoft code, discovered since the launch of SP1Performance• Resume performance when Wi-Fi connection is no longer available after resume from sleep• Inclusion of Windows Search 4 for improved indexing performance, improved relevancy in search, broader indexing scenario inclusion, as well as new Group Policy integration for Windows Search,• Improvements to the RSS feeds sidebar gadget to improve update performance and responsiveness,Application Compatibility• It is our goal that applications that run on the Windows Vista Operating System today and are written using public APIs will continue to work as designed on Windows Vista SP2.• Previously released Application Compatibility updates are included in Windows Vista SP2.• Spysweeper and ZoneAlarm now working with POP3 email accountsAdministration and Support Improvements• Customers installing .net framework 3.5 service pack 1 will notice shorter download and installation times with Vista service pack 2 or Windows 2008 service pack 2 already installed,• Service Pack Clean up tool (Compcln.exe): This tool helps restore the hard disk space by permanently deleting the previous versions of the files (RTM & SP1) that are being serviced by Service Pack 2.• Single installer for both Vista & Server 2008• Ability to detect an incompatible driver and block service pack installation or warn users of any loss of functionality• Better error handling and providing more descriptive error messages where possible• Better manageability through logging in system event log• Componentization for Serviceability of the installerSome Specific Fixes/Additions Include:· Inclusion of Hyper-V· Event logging support in SPC· DNS Server now[...]

(image) Finally-a cash register, rolodex and spreadsheet all in one - FREE!

* Ring up sales and accept credit card payments * Track customer information to provide better service * Run reports that give you key insights into your business * Balance your cash drawer quickly and accurately with a simple wizard * Save time on bookkeeping by transferring data right to QuickBooks * Simple screens that look just like a cash register make it easy to learn and use.

Cash Register Plus lets you do all of this right on your own PC. You'll spend less time running around and more time running your business. And now get Cash Register Plus free!*

(image) iolo AntiVirus™ keeps you safe by using advanced real-time technology that provides continuous maximum protection and automatically repels viruses before they can enter your computer.

Its fully integrated email protection works transparently in the background automatically scanning and disinfecting messages as they are transmitted, and an intuitive interface makes it easy to activate scheduled system inspections for a permanently virus-free PC.

Efficient real-time file protection The high-performance always-on scanner prevents infections from ever occurring without impacting system performance by providing instant detection and removal of viruses and other threats in real-time.

Fully integrated email protection iolo AntiVirus automatically scans and disinfects email messages sent and received by your PC as they are being transmitted.Breakthrough disinfection technology surgically removes dangerous message attachments, leaving the remainder of potentially important messages intact and readable.Automatic protection eliminates the need to manually scan messages before or after they arrive.No-hassle setup instantly integrates with any POP3 email program.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.0 contains many other new features and changes. For a complete list of changes since ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0, see the Changelog tab, above.

WHAT IS ESET NOD32 Antivirus?

ESET NOD32 Antivirus is ESET's solution to protect against computers from malware. It combine's the next generation of ESET's NOD32 antimalware engine with system inspection and bootable disc creation modules.

CONSIDERATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

The beta test version is a precursor of the final product without full functionality and documentation. It is intended for experienced users and should not be installed on computers which perform critical tasks because it may cause errors or crashes.